Those creative fires 🔥 within. Concepts and ideas that smolder inside you? Where do you draw your inspiration from? Do flashes 🔦 from the past unlock ideas or do you find present day moments spark ⚡️ them? Whether you plan buildings or spaces or photograph them great inspiration is paramount. I grew up with an analog 📷 camera in my hands and saw the world through the vieefinder. I feel so blessed. This was in the time where one could get lost for 10 hours a day. Analog days. The cycle of create, develop, print, examine, rinse, repeat... Exploring the world through found light. I find the simple joy of exploration to be the essential in my compositions today. Less formulas...more discovery. And so...these are my thoughts this Friday morning. I would love to know yours. Please share them 👇 below.
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Doug Walker of Walker Photography in Olympia, Washington was named a Silver Medalist during Professional Photographers of America's 2018 International Photographic Competition (IPC). Walker’s work will be on display at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 20-22, 2019. This International Photographic Exhibit is held in conjunction with Imaging USA, an annual convention and expo for professional photographers.

A hearty congratulations to Heather Burgess, co-founder of Phillips Burgess Law Firm, a real estate, land use and environmental law firm based in Olympia and Tacoma, on being named ‘2017 Boss of the Year’ by the Thurston County Chamber of Commerce. I had the pleasure of working with them on updating their executive portraiture.

Monday night I received the ASP State Elite Award for the State of Washington. The award was presented by Rob Behm, M.Photog.,Cr., CPP, and new Vice President of the Professional Photographers of America who joined us at the banquet. The ASP State Elite Award is presented to the ASP member in good standing with the highest scoring entry at their State Print Competition. It was such an honor to receive it and especially in front of such great friends and peers. A hearty 'Thank You' to Miller's Professional Imaging for their dedication to our industry and for sponsoring this award!! As is tradition I created an image of the award. This images is a modified Black-Line Lighting images coupled with a stylized fabric. Now it is on to Western District and eventually to the International Photographic Competition in August 2016. ‪#‎PPW‬ #PPA #IPC #‎AmericanSocietyofPhotographers‬ ‪#‎printcompetition‬ #‎MillersProfessionalImaging‬